Chapter 5479

“Understood!” Maurice answered, his tone as sharp as clashing steel.

“Wait.” Marius lifted a hand. From the shimmering space of his storage ring, he produced a flat black message token and pressed it into the elder’s palm. “If trouble exceeds your grasp, crush this. I will come at once.”

“My thanks, Mr. Blackstone,” Maurice said, tucking the token away as though it were fragile glass.

Moments later, Maurice summoned twenty hand-picked Enforcement Squad disciples, each a middle-phase Immortal Realm cultivator.

“Listen well,” he instructed, voice carrying over the rush of gathering wind. “Quarry No. 7 has fallen silent. We fly immediately to investigate. Any suspicious intruder you meet-eliminate without hesitation.”

“Yes!” the Enforcement Squad disciples roared in unison.

A gust of spiritual force erupted, and the team streaked toward the distant horizon. In the blink of an eye, they were little more than glints of silver vanishing into the clouds.